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PIA23604: Luminous Clouds

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter's clouds with a luminous beauty.

Target Name:	Jupiter
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Juno
Spacecraft:	Juno
Instrument:	JunoCam
Product Size:	1674 x 1068 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	SwRI
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA23604.tif (5.366 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA23604.jpg (256.2 kB)

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Jupiter's clouds have a luminous beauty in this image taken by Juno's JunoCam camera on its 20th close pass by Jupiter. Enhanced colors give a vertical dimension to the clouds. Tiny bright white clouds are the highest, casting shadows on the next layer of clouds. Splashes of orange may be the color of the deepest clouds in this image, viewed through openings in the pastel layer.

Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed this image, acquired on May 29, 2019 at 12:46 a.m. PDT (3:46 a.m. EDT). Juno was over 53 degrees south latitude, at an altitude of about 29,800 miles (48,000 kilometers) above the cloud tops, and details as small as 20 miles (32 kilometers) can be resolved.

JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at
https://missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing.

More information about Juno is at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.

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Image Addition Date:

2019-12-12